Thursday, January 20, 2000
*sigh* Well, it’s been quite a day! We’ve already got three inches of snow, and another three are expected. I got to work fine, thanks to my efforts yesterday. Be‘s announcements (e.g., a free edition of R5) have the Be online community in an uproar. A lot of people are kinda going nuts and making very far-ranging speculations based on very little evidence. Extremely frustrating. I’m half-expecting people to complain about my relative […]
Wednesday, January 19, 2000
It’s been quite a day. I woke up this morning with a sore throat and severely upset stomach, so I spent the day in bed. I was lucky enough to get an Amazon.com order, though, including a CD of cartoon theme music. Lots of fun there. But a major winter storm’s coming, so I had to go out at 3:30 to get new tires on my truck, plus chains, and a few bags of sand for the back. I went to a local […]
Tuesday, January 18, 2000
Been entertaining Saalon all weekend. We got quite a bit done on a game design idea we’ve had, plus lots and lots of chat about science fiction and Star Trek and anime and all sorts of other stuff. Loads of fun. I hear that Be is going to be shifting its focus to internet appliances, and that Release 5.0 will be downloadable for free. Kinda. The downloadable version won’t have all […]
Thursday, January 13, 2000
As you can undoubtedly tell by the frequency of these updates, not much has been happening of late. Saalon will be coming down this weekend, which is very cool. I’ve been taking care of initiatives at work. I’ve been thinking of writing a “Learning C++ for BeOS Programming” book, which explains how to write apps in the BeOS, starting at ground zero (e.g. no programming experience necessary). Might be […]
Monday, January 10, 2000
Light. I am not updating this as often as I should. Not much has happened lately. I went to an AWANA Olympics line judges’ training session on Saturday, then completely forgot to go to the brunch and seminar hosted by the founders of The Motley Fool. Lost $70 on that. I did go to the Kennedy Center on Saturday night for a performance of Gustav Mahler‘s 7th symphony, which was cool. A bit non-melodic for my tastes, but still very enjoyable to watch. […]
Thursday, January 6, 2000
Work’s been going pretty well. I had an offer to switch to another sub-contract within my group, which has its appeal. I wouldn’t be working as directly with everyone else in the group, though. And that’s what I like most about working here; the people I work with. I also am hoping to get a job interview with The Motley Fool. I’ll have to think about this. Not much going on with Informant; I’ll […]
Wednesday, January 5, 2000
I’m home from work today. I had a bit of a sore throat this morning, so I decided to stay home and do a bit of research for work. On Sunday, I implemented a scripting engine for Baxter, a BeOS IRC client. I’m very pleased; it can do quite a lot more than I had initially feared. This is another one of those cases where lots of design beforehand resulted in a surprisingly smooth programming effort. […]
Tuesday, January 4, 2000
Ugh. An order came down from on high to fix a bug by the end of the day. As a result I worked feverishly until 6:30 p.m. to get it out the door. I hate to rush software development. Oh well. I had a looong phone conversation with Saalon (the guy behind Daemonsong) about a variety of things. We’ve had an advertising offer, though it’s for a site that provides some soft-core porn. Moral decision time! We’re going […]
Sunday, January 2, 2000
Well, we all seem to be alive. Y2K has yielded no major problems. Mot even any minor problems. Nothing major’s happened this past week. I was off on Friday, and spent most of the day either working on Informant, or chatting on the internet. I also saw Galaxy Quest, which was excellent. Very impressive. I’m hooking up with the maker of Baxter, a BeOS IRC client, to write some event […]